football got rid of that technology in the 1970s. and as twisted as it sounds, we equip our football players better in a country than we do our soldiers and marines. coaching got better. heads up tackling. coaches not, you know, no longer sing put you between the numbers and that kind of thing. all of these things combined to bring football from the point where they had 36 deaths from galatians in 1968, to last season where there were two deaths from galatians. again got dramatically safer. and at the time we should've been giving football a pat on the back, where getting a kick below the belt. to put this in perspective, there were no kids that died last year from a football hit. more kids died getting struck by lightning than playing football last season and getting struck by other players. and the perception from the news is that the game is more dangerous than ever. it's safer than ever and i think one of the ways you can kind of grasp that the game is safer than ever, is how the conversation initiated. no one much talked about p